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June 1st, 2009 From admin
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According to The People, a well kept secret broke, that on Valentines Day Harrison Ford proposed to long-time love Calista Flockhart. The 66-year-old actor, famous for his roles in Indiana Jones has been dating Calista Flockhart, 44, for over seven years.
Friends of Calista said that Harrison Ford completely surprised her with a stunning engagement ring on Valentine’s Day weekend while the couple and their son, Liam, were holidaying in the Carribean. No official date for the wedding has been announced.
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May 15th, 2009 From admin
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I came accross this story a week ago and just had to share it. It begun in January this year with a very expensive engagement diamond ring, a restaurant, a toilet and a plumber. I’m sure you get where we’re going with this.
An excert from the MSNBC website:
It took a plumber to retrieve a woman’s 7-carat diamond ring after city workers failed in efforts to flush the gem out of the pipes of a restaurant toilet. The $78,000 engagement ring fell from Allison Berry’s hand when she flushed the toilet in the restroom of The Black Bear Diner on Jan. 14. The ring plopped in and the water whisked it away, said Elena Castelar, the restaurant’s shift manager.
Roberts guided a tiny video camera into the pipe with an infrared light attached. He eventually spotted the ring just 3 feet down and 5 feet over from where it was flushed. Then it took an hour-and-a-half of jackhammering and pipe removal before Roberts and a technician could recover the ring, eight hours after it fell in the toilet.
“They always say diamonds are a girl’s best friend. In this case, a plumber is a girl’s best friend,”
Roberts said. “She was just so excited, she had tears in her eyes. She gave us a hug and said ‘Thank you so much.’”
So, a lesson to be learnt here I think, if your going to wear very expensive dimoands, make sure you get the correct size setting, and whatever you do, be careful in public washrooms.
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May 4th, 2009 From admin
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One of our favorite topics (and yours also) is that of which celebrity is wearing what diamond engagement ring. We know this because of the growing number of requests we get each month for replica famous engagement rings.
A while ago we were inundated with requests for the very famous pink diamond ring that Ben Affleck gave to his fiance to be Jennifer Lopez. The gorgeous 6 carat radiant shaped pink diamond caught your attention and instantly became a popular choice of design. SOme things you should know about replica famous engagement rings:
- Replica famous diamond rings such as the Affleck pink diamond are always available for a much lower price than the original.
- The final cost of a replica famous engagement ring will ultimately depends on the quality of gems used and the metal of choice in reproducing the ring.
Since few people can afford the original engagement ring due to the sheer cost of the materials there will always be a market for lower cost replicas
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March 3rd, 2009 From admin
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Current Formula 1 World Grand Prix Champion Lewis Hamilton was watched by millions of viewers all year as he motored to his first championship win. One race, however stood out as the one with the most sparkling perormance (litteraly). During the famous street circuit at Monaco British born Hamilton wore a simply sparkling diamond encrusted helmet.
Throughout the gruelling 77 laps around Monte Carlo’s famous winding streets, the bling bling helmet assured his fans a standout performance. The race itself helped him on his way to be the first British winner of the F1 championshp since Damon Hill (now over 10 years ago) The helmet was provided by a sponsor of the McLaren Mercedes team.
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February 20th, 2009 From admin
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There are a barrage of web rumours that Jennifer Aniston is about to get engaged. Rumors are flying that singer-songwriter John Mayer visited the Diamond Exchange on Tustin Avenue after a Twitterer with the moniker johncmayer posted that he was “Visiting the Diamond Exchange in Tustin.”
We’ve seen many blog and twitter posts about this, so hopefully for Jen’s sake the rumours are true. We think Jennifer deserves another shot at marital happiness and more importantly to see her with a sparkling diamond glittering on her hand.
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February 8th, 2009 From admin
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It seems some things just don’t change, some things are stronger than we imagine and have the power to wash away gloom and depression. One of those things is Valentines Day. We came across some recent research by the NRF (National Retail Federation) which gives some interesting and heart warming results.
An NRF study indicates that consumers plan to spend an average of $102.50 on Valentine’s Day gifts and merchandise, as compared to $122.98 per person last year. Valentine’s Day spending is expected to reach $14.7 billion in the US.
Tracy Mullin, NRF President and CEO, said: “A bad economy won’t stop Cupid this Valentine’s Day, but it might slow him down. This year more than ever, consumers will look for creative and inexpensive ways to show those they love how much they mean to them.”
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January 10th, 2009 From admin
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Damien Hirst’s latest artwork is this life-size platinum skull encrusted with 8,601 fine diamonds. The sculpture, titled “For The Love of God,” will likely sell for as much as $100 million, making it the most expensive piece of art ever made. the White Cube gallery in USA is selling a number of special limited edition prints of the work, with prices from £900 rising to £10,000 for a piece sprinkled with diamond dust.
Damien Hirst, the famous pickler of sharks and bovine bisector, regularly produces artwork based on the concept of death. This latest piece, was cast from an 18th-century skull he bought in London. “I remember thinking it would be great to do a diamond one — but just prohibitively expensive,” he recalls. “Then I started to think — maybe that’s why it is a good thing to do. Death is such a heavy subject, it would be good to make something that laughed in the face of it.”
Hirst, who financed the piece himself, watched for months as the price of international diamonds rose while the Bond Street gem dealer Bentley & Skinner tried to corner the market for the artist’s benefit. Given the ongoing controversy over blood diamonds from Africa, “For the Love of God” now has the potential to be about death in a more literal way.
“That’s when you stop laughing,” Hirst says. “You might have created something that people might die because of. I guess I felt like Oppenheimer or something. What have I done? Because it’s going to need high security all its life.”
Read more about Damian Hirsts Diamond Encrusted Skull here.
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December 15th, 2008 From admin
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One of those days that often lays forgotten in the mist of drink fuelled headaches, and turkey fueled indigestion is Boxing Day. Officially the second day of Christmas but in recent years its grown to stand alone as its own important festival
Wikipedia has this to say ‘’Boxing Day dates back to the century in which the primary practice of giving gifts to employees or to people in a lower social class. The Oxford English Dictionary attributes it to the Christmas box; the verb box meaning: “To give a Christmas-box (colloq.); hence the term boxing-day.” The date coincides with the Feast of St. Stephen.’’
Traditionally in England a second gift is given to friends and close family members. I’ve heard many stories of people using this day to give their real gift to loved ones. Using Christmas Day for token box of chocolates or woolly socks
A stunning suggestion for a ‘little’ Boxing Day gift is this diamond necklace
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October 29th, 2008 From admin
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New technology tries to pin down history of Koh-i-Noor diamond
The Koh-i-Noor is one of the world’s great and probably most famous ‘unknown’ diamond. For over a 150 years, the diamond has been cast into the British crown jewels. Measuring an awe inspiring 191-carats, the diamond has a long and mostly unknown past to many. Recent research has revealed some interesting origins of the little known uge gem. The research was reported during the August 2008 issue of Gems & Gemology. Fundamentally the article caused ripples since it aimed to disprove one of its generally accepted origins.
The original gem may have been found over 5,000 years ago, however the first mention in any verifiable document did not appear until 1304. The rock was bougth and sold, given as a gift and exchanged repeatedly though during many times it was through violence, war and conquest, eventually arriving on British soil in 1849.
The Ko-i-Noor diamond was shown at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 where it received little praise since it had a disappointing lopsided cut and sheer lack of brilliance.
In 1852 Queen Victoria then ordererd it to be re-cut and shaped into its present dimensions. That re-cutting, while producing a more appealing shape and “fire,” reduced the stone to 105 carats, almost half its previous weight. Before the cutting, a mold had been made and at least two plaster replicas cast.
One of the theories for the origin of the Koh-i-Noor is that it was cut from a diamond called the Great Mogul, a 287-carat stone shaped like half an egg. That stone disappears from the historic record about the time the Koh-i-Noor appears. The recent research showed that the original Koh-i-Noor was too large in one dimension to have come from that stone.
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October 21st, 2008 From admin
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Yes, you read it right, scientists believe the precious gems can help cure cancer!. A new drug in the form of a patch is studded with many tiny specks of diamonds which act as a targeted receiver for radiation therapies. The doctors hope this may eventually allow cancer patients to receive chemotherapy treatments exactly where its needed.
The flexible microfilm, which looks like plastic wrap, is embedded with tiny pieces of diamond that release a common chemotherapy drug slowly over a pre prescribed time thereby limiting patient exposure to the drug’s toxic side effects.
“The thin device - a sort of blanket or patch - could be used to treat a localized region where residual cancer cells might remain after a tumour is removed,” Dean Ho of Northwestern University, whose research appears in the journal ACS Nano, said in a statement.
The material is made of nanodiamonds, fragments of diamond dust comprised of only a few clusters of carbon atoms. Clusters of nanodiamonds have a high surface area that makes them ideal for carrying drugs. Then they tested it to see how well it released drugs over time. They found the drug released slowly and evenly for a month, with doxorubicin to spare.
The team hopes this diamond-studded technology can be used to complement injected chemotherapy to reduce dosages and decrease its side effects.
